An open letter to Sens. John Thune and Mike Rounds and Rep. Kristi Noem:

Just a note to say how sad I feel that you could pass a tax cut for the wealthiest people in our country and the executives of corporations and then not only neglect, but take from those of us who are retired senior citizens and who depend upon Social Security for income and survival.

I recently received in the mail, The Benefit for Living for 2018, from the Social Security Administration. It states that for the third year in a row, the .02 percent increase that has been assigned, has been taken up by the tax for Medicare. So, there will be no actual cash increase in our cost of living. Thank you very much for making yourselves and President Donald Trump and wealthy CEO’s of corporations, even more wealthy, while letting those of us, the hard-working senior citizens who paid into this fund for more than 45 years and who depend on this income to pay our daily bills, with no increase. Not just this year, but last year and now again, for this year – 2018. How sad.

I hope each of you had a Merry Christmas. As you did, I hope you enjoyed the wealth you have increased for yourselves and celebrated with the already wealthy, whose income you have also increased, while we who are retired and depending on Social Security to live, tried to set our budgets for this New Year of 2018, on the exact same income we have scraped along on for the past two years, with no increase.

Rejoice, celebrate, enjoy your prosperity. Your tax bill has just proven what most of us who are independents and now retired, have always known. The Republican Party is and will always be, the party of the wealthy.

God bless each of you.

P.S. To make up for the more than $1 trillion deficit your beautiful new tax bill has created, I am sure we seniors will see even more cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid next year. What a joy. A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the U.S.

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